Quotes about Contentment
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.
- George Washington
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
- Joseph Addison
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.
- Seneca
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
- William Hazlitt
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.
- Abraham Lincoln
When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?
- Dale Carnegie
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
- George Eliot